SAS Business Rules Manager 3.2: Accessibility Features

Overview

SAS Business Rules Manager
3.2 has not been tested against U.S. Section 508 standards and W3C
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). If you have specific
questions about the accessibility of SAS products, send email to accessibility@sas.com
or
call SAS Technical Support.

Documentation Format

Please contact accessibility@sas.com if
you need this document in an alternative digital format.

Landmarks

Landmarks are references
to the primary areas of an application’s user interface. They
provide a quick and easy way for keyboard users to navigate to these
areas of the application.

To access the list of
landmarks that are available for a specific context, press Ctrl+F6
to open the Landmarks window. Use the arrow
keys to select a landmark, and then press Enter to navigate to that
area of the application.

User Interface Layout

SAS Business Rules Manager
provides a framework for managing business rules and associated workflows.
It enables you to define business vocabularies, define business rules
and rule flows, and publish the rule flows for use by other SAS applications.

The top of the window
contains the application name and an application bar that includes
a menu bar, a Search field, and a Sign
Out button.

The left side of the
window contains a collapsible navigation pane. This pane lists one
or more category views (depending on your assigned capabilities and
roles) that you can select. The views contain either folder trees
or a list of objects. You can open these objects (one at a time) into
tabs in the work area next to the navigation pane.

The center of the window
(the work area) contains open objects. Depending on the object, the
work area might contain several tabs.

Below the work area
is the tile pane. You can collapse open objects into a tile in the
tile pane.

The bottom of the window
contains a status bar that displays information about your connection
to the SAS Metadata Server.

To customize the application
window and its features, select FilePreferences. For more information
about the layout and features of the application window, see SAS Business Rules Manager: User’s Guide.

Themes

An application’s
theme is the collection of colors, graphics, and fonts that appear
in the application. The following themes are provided with this application:
SAS Corporate (default theme), SAS Blue Steel, SAS Dark, SAS High
Contrast, and SAS Light. To change the theme for the application,
open the Preferences window, and go to the Global
Preferences page. From this page, you can also invert
the application colors or configure the indicator that shows where
the focus is located in your user interface.

Note: You can use keyboard
shortcuts to magnify the contents of the browser window or to invert
the application colors. For more information, see the Keyboard Shortcuts
table below.

Note: If you have special
requirements for your themes, then contact your system administrator
or visual designer about using SAS Theme Designer for Flex to build
custom themes. SAS Theme Designer for Flex is installed with SAS themes.
For more information about this tool, see SAS Theme Designer for Flex: User’s Guide.

Keyboard Shortcuts

The following table
contains many of the keyboard shortcuts for the application. In the
user interface, some shortcuts are displayed within parentheses in
tooltips and menu item labels. Some are also displayed in the Keyboard
Shortcuts window (press F9 to open that window).

Note: Some application-level
keyboard shortcuts do not work when you first open an application.
When that happens, press Tab to move the focus to the application,
and then try the keyboard shortcut again.

Note: When
you use a keyboard shortcut to activate a button, move the focus to
the field or section that the button is associated with before you
use the keyboard shortcut. For example, if a table has an associated
Help button, you must first move the focus to the table before you
press Ctrl+?.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Action

Keyboard Shortcut

Open the Keyboard
Shortcuts window.

F9

Note: The Keyboard
Shortcuts window might not contain all of the shortcuts
for your application.

Open a Help pop-up window
from the Help button.

Ctrl+?

Note: This shortcut does not
work on some keyboards (for example, the Italian keyboard).

Zoom in.

Ctrl+plus sign

Zoom out.

Ctrl+minus sign

Reset the zoom state.

Ctrl+0

Maximize view (collapses
the category pane and the tile pane, and hides the status bar and
the application bar, which includes the menu bar and the workspace
bar).

or

Exit maximized view
(expands the category pane and the tile pane, and shows the status
bar and the application bar).

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M

Note: This shortcut does not
work when the focus is on the workspace bar.

Open a pop-up menu.

Shift+F9 (if a menu
is available in that context)

Note: If you use Shift+F9
to display the pop-up menu, then it is always displayed in the top
left corner of the user interface control that you are using.

Note: You can set the Invert
application colors preference in the Preferences window
if you want the color change to persist across sessions.

Ctrl+~

Rename the selected
tab.

Make sure that the focus
is on the tab. Press F2, and specify the new name. To commit your
changes, press Enter. To cancel your changes, press Esc.

Close the selected tab.

Make sure that the focus
is on the tab, and then press Delete.

Note: Some tabs cannot be
closed.

Switch in and out of
Edit mode for a table cell.

To enter Edit mode,
select a cell, and press F2.

To exit Edit mode, press
Esc.

Navigate between table
headings and table content.

For a two-dimensional
table, make sure that the focus is on the table and that you are not
in Edit mode. Press Ctrl+F8 to switch the focus between column headings
and table cells. Use the arrow keys to navigate from heading to heading.

For a multidimensional
table, make sure that the focus is on a table cell and that you are
not in Edit mode. Press Ctrl+F8 to switch the focus between column
headings, row headings, and table cells. Use the arrow keys to navigate
from heading to heading.

Navigate the content
rows of a table.

When table cells are
in Edit mode:

Press Tab and Shift+Tab
to move from cell to cell horizontally across columns.

Press Enter and Shift+Enter
to move from cell to cell vertically across rows.

When table cells are
not in Edit mode, use the arrow keys to move from cell to cell.

Sort columns in a table.

To sort a single column,
navigate to its column heading (press Ctrl+F8). Press the spacebar
to sort the column.

To sort additional columns,
navigate to the column heading of each additional column that you
want to sort. Press Ctrl+spacebar.

Change the width of
the current column.

Navigate to the column
heading (press Ctrl+F8). Then press Ctrl+left arrow or Ctrl+right
arrow to change the width of the column.

Move the current column.

Navigate to the column
heading (press Ctrl+F8). Then press Shift+left arrow to move one column
to the left, and press Shift+right arrow to move one column to the
right.

Automatically re-size
the current column to fit its contents.

Navigate to the column
heading (press Ctrl+F8). Then press Enter.

Open a drop-down list
or drop-down menu.

Make sure that the focus
is on the control, and press Ctrl+down arrow.

Change the month or
year in a calendar control.

Move the focus to the
calendar control.

To change the month,
press Page Up to go to the previous month, and press Page Down to
go to the next month.

To change the year,
press the minus sign key to go to the previous year, and press the
plus sign key to go to the next year.

Exit
a single application in the SAS Visual Analytics home page.

Tab to the application’s
button at the top of the browser window, and press Delete.

Exceptions to Accessibility Standards

Some exceptions to accessibility
standards are documented in the following table.

Note: The JAWS issues occur
when JAWS is used with Internet Explorer. Other browsers were not
tested with JAWS, unless noted.

Exceptions to Accessibility Standards

Accessibility Issue

Workaround

Sometimes, you cannot
use the keyboard to sequentially navigate through the interface and
move the focus in a meaningful order.

No workaround is available.

The SAS High Contrast
theme has a few unresolved focus and contrast issues.

For contrast issues,
select a different theme, and then press Ctrl+~ to invert the colors.

JAWS cannot read some
of the controls in the application, such as images, icons, and buttons.

No workaround is available.

JAWS cannot read the
tooltips of items in trees, lists, and menus.

No workaround is available.

JAWS refers to table
controls as list boxes.

When JAWS reports that
a control is a list box, keep in mind that it might actually be a
table.

JAWS sometimes reads
controls that are not available to users.

No workaround is available.

The keyboard shortcuts
that are used to interact with editable tables can conflict with keyboard
shortcuts for the Forms mode in JAWS.

As a best practice,
disable the JAWS Virtual PC cursor when you work with tables. Tab
to the table, and press Insert+Z to disable the Virtual PC cursor.
When you finish interacting with the table, press Insert+Z to re-enable
the Virtual PC cursor.

JAWS cannot read two-column
property tables.

No workaround is available.

JAWS does not correctly
read the information in a table:

JAWS cannot read the
column headings of a table.

When table cells are
not editable and the focus is on the body of the table, JAWS reads
an entire row at a time instead of cell by cell.

When table cells are
editable and the focus is on the body of the table, JAWS reads only
the first row of the table. If you use the arrow keys to select a
cell or row, then JAWS does not read anything. If you press Enter
to edit a cell, then JAWS reads the row that contains the edited cell.

No workaround is available.

When a table cell is
selected and you press Home, End, Page Up, or Page Down, the focus
moves to the first displayed column, regardless of which column you
were in.

Use the arrow keys to
navigate through the cells of the table.

You cannot use the keyboard
to scroll to the left and the right in some tables.

No workaround is available.

You cannot use Shift+F10
to open a pop-up menu.

Use Shift+F9 to open
pop-up menus that are created for the SAS application. The generic
menu that is provided by the Flash player cannot be opened by Shift+F9.

Note: If you press Shift+F10
in Internet Explorer and no pop-up menu is available, the browser
moves the focus to the File menu for the
browser tab. To return focus to the application area of the browser
window, press Esc.

You cannot use the keyboard
to access the close (x) button that is in the top right corner of
a tab.

Make sure that the focus
is on the tab, and then press Delete to close the tab.

You cannot use the keyboard
to access the close (x) button that is in the top right corner of
a tile in the tile pane.

Make sure that the focus
is on the tile, and then press Delete to close the tile. (The object
that is displayed in the tile is not deleted.)

Visual focus for the
menu bar is indicated with an outline around the entire menu bar instead
of around individual menus.

To select individual
menus, use the left or right arrow key.

Sometimes, you cannot
use the Tab key to move the focus to the application area of a web
browser (that is, the part of the browser window that is controlled
by the Flash player).

The following workaround
is applicable to Internet Explorer only.

Press Ctrl+number,
where number is the ordinal
position of the application’s tab in the set of tabs that are
open in your browser window. Then press Tab to move the focus to the
application area.

You cannot use the Tab
key to move the focus outside of a code or expression editor. Pressing
Tab within the editor only inserts tabs.

For Internet Explorer,
press Shift+F10, and then press Esc to move the focus outside of the
editor.

For Firefox, press Alt+Tab
to switch to another application. When you switch back, the focus
will be outside of the editor.

You cannot use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M
to minimize or maximize the view if the focus is on the workspace
bar.

No workaround is available.

If you tab to an item
that is partially or entirely off-screen, the item is not automatically
scrolled back into view.

Sometimes, you can use
the arrow keys or the Tab key to scroll the item back into view.

When you use the Ctrl+plus
sign keyboard shortcut to zoom in, some portions of the interface
can become hidden from view.

Use the keyboard to
access the hidden parts of the interface.

The Ctrl+plus sign and
Ctrl+minus sign keyboard shortcuts for zooming in and out do not work
on some menus unless the menus are first opened.

Open the menu before
you use the keyboard shortcut.

The Ctrl+plus sign and
Ctrl+minus sign keyboard shortcuts for zooming in and out do not work
on all elements in the application window (for example, tooltips and
button labels).

No workaround is available.

You cannot use the keyboard
to navigate in the Layout section because
it is a Read-Only interface that is used for the visual verification
of the elements that have been created.

Use the test button
that is in the Layout section to preview
your elements in a secondary window. The items that are displayed
in the secondary window are identical to the items that are displayed
in the Layout section, but unlike the items
in the Read-Only Layout section, you can
interact with the items in the secondary window.

Note: After the application
opens the secondary window, press Tab to move the focus to the window.

JAWS does not explain
how to operate a drop-down list and drop-down menu.

JAWS refers to these
controls as either "button", "button menu", or
"combo box". In addition to using Ctrl+down arrow to open
these drop-down lists and menus, you can also activate buttons and
some button menus by pressing spacebar. Pressing spacebar either opens
the control or selects the default item.

When you use the down
arrow to scroll through the items in a "combo box," any
item that opens a secondary window will do so when you scroll down
to it. This prevents you from navigating to items that are farther
down in the drop-down list.

Press Ctrl+down arrow
to scroll through the items in the drop-down list, and then press
Enter or Tab to make a selection.

JAWS cannot read the
contents of a tree table (that is, a table that contains a tree) unless
the table is in Edit mode.

Make sure that the focus
is in the tree table, and press F2 to enter Edit mode.

JAWS cannot read the lineage viewer.

No workaround is available.

JAWS cannot read the
content selection tree.

No workaround is available.

If the list of additional
search options contains a secondary level of options, you cannot use
the keyboard to select the check boxes that are associated with that
secondary level of options.

No workaround is available.

JAWS incorrectly states
that you should use Ctrl+Tab to switch tabs.

To switch from one tab
to the next, press the left or right arrow key and then press Enter
or spacebar.

You cannot determine
which cell in a table row has the focus unless the cell is in Edit
mode.

No workaround is available.

When a date field with
a calendar button is displayed in a table cell or selection list,
sometimes you cannot move the cursor into the field or move the focus
to the calendar button.

No workaround is available.

In the date field, you
cannot use the keyboard to change the plus operator to a minus operator.

No workaround is available.

JAWS reads the minus
operator in the date field as a “dash”.

No workaround is available.

When JAWS is running,
some drop-down menus do not work correctly with the keyboard.

Changing the JAWS cursor
mode (press Insert+Z) can sometimes help.

In some charts, graphs,
and diagrams, color is the only means for conveying certain types
of information.

You can use SAS Theme
Designer for Flex to create custom colors that are easier for low-vision
and color-blind users to discern.

In the Manage
Columns window that is opened from the toolbar in the
category view, JAWS does not announce the labels of the Available
columns and Displayed columns list
boxes.

No workaround is available.

You cannot use the keyboard
to move the focus to the buttons that are used for changing the month
and year in the calendar control.

Move the focus to the
calendar control.

To change the month,
press Page Up to go to the previous month, and press Page Down to
go to the next month.

To change the year,
press the minus sign key to go to the previous year, and press the
plus sign key to go to the next year.

Using the Alt Gr key
in certain key combinations sometimes causes an action instead of
displaying a character. For example, if you use the Alt Gr key with
the plus sign (+) key, the grave (`) key, or the question mark (?)
key on some keyboards, you zoom in, invert colors, and open Help (respectively)
instead of displaying the expected character.

Use the Character Map
feature in Microsoft Windows to copy the character that you need.

Focus on the arrow that
is used to expand a column is not always announced.

No workaround is available.

When more than one report
is displayed, you might not be able to access all reports using the
keyboard.

No workaround is available.

Some parts of advanced
search filters cannot be accessed with a keyboard.

No workaround is available.

You cannot use the keyboard
to expand the Details section of the Versions pages
for rule sets and rule flows.

Select a specific version,
then tab back to the Edit button in the toolbar.

JAWS cannot read the
contents of the details view on the Versions page
of a rule set or rule flow. In addition, it cannot read the contents
of the details view in the My Tasks category.